# Your Handwriting

> A browser tool that turns your own handwriting into a real, installable font file. You write the
> letters on screen with a finger, stylus or mouse. Nothing is printed, photographed or uploaded.

## What you get

Free, no account:

- 26 lowercase letters
- A working, unwatermarked TTF you can install and type in
- Proper spacing and kerning, which most tools charge for

$12 once, for that font. No subscription, because a font is a finished thing:

- Capitals, numbers and punctuation, 70 more characters — a whole keyboard
- Bold, italic and underline, generated rather than drawn
- Outline and tracing styles
- OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 as well as TTF
- An account, so the font can be downloaded again later

## What makes the output different

Spacing is derived from the writer's own hand rather than from a fixed table. It uses Walter Tracy's
method, measuring how far each letter's ink retreats from its edges and calibrating against that
writer's own `n` and `o`. Most handwriting-font tools apply one uniform gap to every letter, which is
why their output reads as letters placed in a row rather than as handwriting.

The pen strokes are kept, not only the finished outlines. A bolder weight is a wider pen rather than
a dilated shape, and a tracing style is a walk along a path that already exists.

The guides are the same for every font. A letter drawn large and a letter drawn small land at the
same proportions, because both were measured against the same lines — which is the flaw that spoils
the output of most tools you draw directly into.

## Privacy

Font generation runs in the browser. The handwriting does not leave the device.

## What this is not

Not a type editor, not a font marketplace, and not AI-generated handwriting. The whole point is that
it is this person's hand.